Nikiforovich Anatoly Yar-Kravchenko (June 21, 1911 - November 24, 1983, Moscow) - a Soviet artist who worked mainly in the genre of graphic portraits, People's Artist of the RSFSR, winner of the Stalin Prize (1947), Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Society of philatelists (1972-1977).
Author large series of portraits of pilots ( "Frontline album," 1941; "Heroes of the air battles for Leningrad, 1942), writers (" Gallery of Soviet Writers, 1947), the astronauts.
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